Store-service apparatus



(No Model.)

S. W. BARR.

STORE SERVICE APPARATUS.

Patented Oct. 22, 1889.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OEEICE.

SAMUEL IV. BARR, OF MANSFIEID, OHIO.

STOR-SRVIGE APPARATUS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 413,479, dated October22, 1889.

Application filed April 4, 1889. Serial No. 305,951. (No model.)

.To all whom, it may concern:

Beit known that I, SAMUEL W. BARR, a citizen of the United States, and aresident of Mansfield, in the county of Richland and State of Ohio, haveinvented new and useful Improvements in Store-Service Apparatus, ofwhich the following is a specification.

The object of my invention is to provide improved means at the stationby which the carrier can be impclled from and toward the station.

My invention relates to a store-service apparatus whereby the carriermay be impelled in either direction from each station; and myimprovement consists in the construction of parts, as hereinafterdescribed, and pointed out in the claims.

In order that my invention may be fully understood, I will proceed todescribe it with reference to the accompanying drawings, in whichm iFigure I is a side elevation of the apparatus at one station, showing myimproved construction. Fig. II is a longitudinal vertical section of thebumper. Fig. III is a top view of the bumper-blocks, the spring' beingomitted. Fig. IV is an end View of the carrier. Fig. V is a top view ofablock for supporting the pulleys and the carrier-holding hooks.

1 is a support in the form of gas-pipe rigidly secured to a ceiling oroverhead floor of a building.

2 is a block secured to the support, having side pieces 3, formed withhangers or legs 4, for supporting pulleys 5, 6, and 7. A pulley 8 isalso journaled to the side pieces over the front pulley 7.

9 is a rear projection or arm on the block, to which stay-wires 10 areconnected. Beneath this projection or arm is a rod or pipe 11, securedto the rear end of the block and having at its outer end a bracket 12,supporting a pulley 13. The bracket is further sustained by a brace-rod14:, secured to a collar 15 on the support 1.

To the front end of the block 2 are pivoted hooks 16, supported innormal position by flanges 17, also on the block 2. 'uIhe hook 16 isformed with a catch 18 atits outer end and with a notch or recess 19 atthe middle por tion.

Between the front pulleys? and 8 the trackwires 2O and 2l are caused Vtomove. These traclrwires are secured to a strong connection, as a cord,strap, or chain 22, which runs over the pulley 13, and with the samearrangement at a similar opposite station (not shown) forms a continuousbelt. The lower trackwire 21 is secured to a bumperhead 23, and the endof the cord, strap, or chain 22 is also secured to the bumper-head, sothat the bumper-head is supported on the wire and cord, strap, or chain.

24 is a small block, preferably of metal, which provides means ofconnection between the upper track-wire 2O and the other end of thecord, strap, or chain. The bumper-head 23 has a square top -formed witha notch 25 for the passage of the upper traclewire. A bumper 26,preferably of rubber, perforated for the passage of the lowertrack-wire, is slipped on the latter, and is coupled with thebumper-head by means of a coil-spring 27. Thus the bumperhead, bumper,and spring form together a compound bumper.

28 is a pull-cord secured at one end to the strap 22, and at the otherend `is fastened to a crosspin 29 on the inner' hanger et. Thispull-cord is passed over the pulley 5 and under a pulley 30, journaledin a handle 81. Another pull-cord 32 is also secured to the strap at asuitable distance from the other pull-cord, is passed over the pulley 6,under a pulley 33, journaled in a handle 34, and fastcned to a crosspin35 in the central hanger 4:.

The carrier-frame 3G may be cast integral for three wheels 37 37 and 38,the wheels 37 37 being the upper ones and the wheel 38 the lower one.The carrier-frame is also formed with bumpercnds 89 and withupwardly-extending arms aO, having side projections 41. at their tops.

lVhen the carrier is in normal position at the station, as indicated indotted lines, the catches on the hooks 16 engage the rear sideprojections on the carrier, the carrier having been caught by thecatches on its last return. The carrier also has some play at thestation between the bumper and the catch, so that the hook is raisedfrom the carrier by the bumperhead before the propelling force strikesthe carrier. When the operatorpulls IOO on the pull-cord 28, the bumperstrikes the carrier and impels it forward with double the speed of thehand, and the pull-cord 32 is taken up. Then by pulling on the pull-cord32 the carrier can be brought back to the station and the cord 28 drawnup. The construction at each station being the same, the

operator can send the carrier through and return it from either station.

42 is a cash-box secured to the carrier.

Having thus described my invention, the following is what I claim as newtherein and desire to secure by Letters Patent:

1. A store-service apparatus comprising a Vhook 16, having acarrier-catch 18 and a bumper-recess 19, two track-wires, connectionbetween the track-wires, and a bumper-head secured to a track-wire, andwith which the hook engages, substantially as described.

2. The combination of the upper track-wire 20, the lower track-wire 21,the connection 22 between the track-wires, and the bumperhead 23, havingbumper 26 and coil-spring 27, substantially as described.

3. A store-service apparatus comprising a hook 16, having acarrier-catch 18 and a bumper-recess 19, two track-wires, connectionbetween the track-wires, and bumper-head secured to the track-wire,having a notch 25 for the passage of the other track-wire, substantiallyas described.

4. The combination of .the upper track-wire 20, the lower track-wire 21,the connection 22 between the track-wires, and the bumperliead 23,formed with a notch 25 for the passage of the upper wire, bumper 26, andcoilspring 27, substantially as described.

' 5. A store-service apparatus comprising a hook 16, having acarrier-catch 18 and a bumper-recess 19, two track-wires, connectionbetween the track-wires, a bumper-head 23, secured to a track-wire,having bumper 26 and coil-sprin g 27, substantially as described.

6. The combination of the upper track-wire 20, the lower track-wire 21,the strap 22, connected to the upper track-wire, the bulnperhead 23, bywhich the strap is connected to the lower track-wire, the bumper 26,sliding on the lower track-wire, and the coil-spring 27, connecting thebumper-head and bumper, substantially as described.

7. A store-service apparatus comprising a pair of hooks 16, havingcarrier-catches 18 and bumper-recesses 19, two track-wires, connectionbetween the track-wires, a bumperhead secured to a track-wire, and acarrier comprising a frame 36, having side arms 40, provided with sideprojections 41and bumper ends 39, substantially as described.

8. An apparatus comprising the upper track-wire 20, the lower track-wire2l, the strap connected to the track-wires, the block 2, having sidepieces 3 and hangers 4, the hooks 16, having catches 18 and recesses 19,the bumper-head 23, the bumper 26, the coil-spring 27, and the carrier36, having bumper ends 39 and side projections 41, substantially asdescribed.

9. An apparatus comprising the block 2, having side pieces 3 and hangers4, the rearwardly-projecting rod 11, the bracket 12, the pulleys 5, 6,and 7, the bracket-pulley 13, the upper track-wire 20, the lowertrack-wire 21, the connecting-strap 22, the pull-cords 28 and 32, andthe bumper-head 23, substantially as described.

10. An apparatus comprising the block 2, having side pieces 3 andhangers 4, the rearwardly-projecting rod 11, the bracket 12, the pulleys5, 6, and 7, the bracket-pulley 13, the track-wires 2O and 21, theconnecting-strap 22, the pull-cords 28 and 32, the bumper-head 23, andthe handles 31 and 34, having pulleys 30 and 33, respectively,substantially as de scribed.

SAMUEL W. BARR.

fitnessesz R. B. BooN, SAML. MARRIOTT.

